EP2380856A2 - Brûleur pour produire un préforme de verre poreux - Google Patents

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EP2380856A2
EP2380856A2 EP11163597A EP11163597A EP2380856A2 EP 2380856 A2 EP2380856 A2 EP 2380856A2 EP 11163597 A EP11163597 A EP 11163597A EP 11163597 A EP11163597 A EP 11163597A EP 2380856 A2 EP2380856 A2 EP 2380856A2
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B37/00—Manufacture or treatment of flakes, fibres, or filaments from softened glass, minerals, or slags
    • C03B37/01—Manufacture of glass fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/012—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments
    • C03B37/014—Manufacture of preforms for drawing fibres or filaments made entirely or partially by chemical means, e.g. vapour phase deposition of bulk porous glass either by outside vapour deposition [OVD], or by outside vapour phase oxidation [OVPO] or by vapour axial deposition [VAD]
    • C03B37/01413—Reactant delivery systems
    • C03B37/0142—Reactant deposition burners
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B2207/00—Glass deposition burners
    • C03B2207/04—Multi-nested ports
    • C03B2207/06—Concentric circular ports
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B2207/00—Glass deposition burners
    • C03B2207/04—Multi-nested ports
    • C03B2207/12—Nozzle or orifice plates
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B2207/00—Glass deposition burners
    • C03B2207/04—Multi-nested ports
    • C03B2207/14—Tapered or flared nozzles or ports angled to central burner axis
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B2207/00—Glass deposition burners
    • C03B2207/04—Multi-nested ports
    • C03B2207/18—Eccentric ports
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B2207/00—Glass deposition burners
    • C03B2207/20—Specific substances in specified ports, e.g. all gas flows specified
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B2207/00—Glass deposition burners
    • C03B2207/42—Assembly details; Material or dimensions of burner; Manifolds or supports

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  • the present invention relates to a burner for producing a porous glass preform, having a multi-nozzle type concentric multi-tube structure in which multiple gas jet ports are disposed concentrically.
  • the outside vapor deposition method (OVD method) is generally used since the refractive-index distribution of an optical fiber preform to be obtained can be set relatively freely, and moreover optical fiber preforms with large diameters can be mass-produced.
  • the OVD method includes depositing and attaching glass particulates generated in a flame of a burner onto a rotating starting member by relatively reciprocating the burner or the starting member, so as to synthesize a glass particulate deposition (hereinafter, referred to as "soot"), and dehydrating and sintering the resultant soot in an electric furnace to produce a transparent glass body.
  • a concentric multi-tube burner has been used for synthesizing the soot.
  • Such a structure of the burner does not allow glass material gas, combustible gas, and combustion-supporting gas to be mixed well, so that glass particulates are not produced sufficiently.
  • the yield of the glass particulates is not satisfactory, thereby causing difficulties in synthesizing them at high speed.
  • JP-B Japanese Patent
  • JP-B No. 1773359 proposes a multi-nozzle type burner in which small-diameter combustion-supporting gas jet ports are disposed in a combustible gas jet port to surround a material gas jet port arranged in a center of the burner.
  • JP-A Japanese Patent Application Publication
  • JP-A No. 2003-206154 JP-A No. 2004-331440 , JP-A No. 2006-182624 , and JP-B No. 3744350 , for example, propose configurations of the small-diameter combustion-supporting gas jet ports.
  • JP-A No. Hei 05-323130 JP-B No. 3543537
  • JP-A No. 2003-226544 for example, propose optimization of focal lengths of the small-diameter combustion-supporting gas jet ports.
  • Japanese Patent No. 3591330 , JP-A No. 2003-165737 , JP-A No. 2003-212555 , and Japanese Patent No. 3653902 propose optimization of a gas flow rate and a gas linear velocity.
  • the burner for producing a porous glass preform is generally made of silica glass to prevent contamination, and is manually fabricated by a glass blower.
  • the multi-nozzle type burner has a more complex structure than a conventional concentric multi-tube burner and, specifically, it is highly difficult to fabricate the multi-nozzle type burner having a configuration in which multiple gas jet ports are arranged outside the small-diameter gas jet port and are reduced in their diameters at the tip side.
  • the multi-nozzle type burner having such a complex structure is fabricated by a skilled glass blower with satisfactory attention to precision, individual differences of the burners tend to be larger than a conventional concentric multi-tube burner. Such individual differences of the burners result from tolerance stack-up of members.
  • An object of the invention is to provide a multi-nozzle type burner for producing a porous glass preform, the burner having small variations in deposition efficiency with the burner tip being not burned even when axial shift occurs at the concentric multi-tube part of the burner.
  • a burner for producing a porous glass preform with a concentric multi-tube structure includes a glass material gas jet port in a center; a plurality of gas jet ports concentrically disposed outside the glass material gas jet port; and small-diameter gas jet ports which are disposed in a line or a plurality of lines concentrically to the glass material gas jet port so as to be enclosed in one of the gas jet ports other than the gas jet ports in the center and at an outermost side, the small-diameter gas jet ports in the same line having an identical focal length.
  • the gas jet ports disposed outside the gas jet port enclosing the small-diameter gas jet ports are each reduced in diameter in a direction toward a burner tip, and satisfy a relationship of L1>L2>L3>... >Ln, where L1, L2, L3, ... Ln represent lengths from the burner tip to diameter-reduction start positions of the outside-disposed gas jet ports in this order from the inside, respectively, so that the more outward the gas jet port is located, the closer to the burner tip the diameter-reduction start position of the gas jet port is.
  • a method for producing a porous glass preform is a production method using the burner for producing a porous glass preform.
  • the tubes are reduced in diameter toward the tip sequentially from the inside to the outside, so that the diameter-reduction start positions are shifted sequentially, thereby preventing clearance of a gas flow path from being extremely small.
  • Table 1 shows a clearance comparison between cases of large clearance and small clearance, where the inner tubes are the same, and the outer tube axial shift amounts are commonly 0.5 mm. Even with the same axial shift amount, a smaller absolute amount of clearance results in a larger clearance ratio (b/a), whereas a larger absolute amount of clearance results in a smaller clearance ratio (b/a), thereby allowing influence of the axial shift to be reduced relatively. As a result, a smaller absolute amount of clearance leads to great varieties in linear velocity distribution.
  • Table 1 Small clearance Large clearance Inner tube diameter mm 30 30 Outer tube diameter mm 32 38 Average clearance mm 1.0 4.0 Minimum clearance (a) mm 0.5 3.5 Maximum clearance (b) mm 1.5 4.5 Clearance ratio (b/a) - 3 1.3
  • the diameter-reduction start position of the outer tube was, in fact, slightly further from the tip than that of the inner tube, although the diameter of each tube is supposed to be reduced at the same position.
  • the outer tube was reduced in diameter first to be close to the inner tube, thereby resulting in smaller clearance than the designed clearance.
  • Ln represent lengths from the burner tip to diameter-reduction start positions of the outside-disposed gas jet ports in this order from the inside, respectively, so that the more outward the gas jet port is located, the closer to the burner tip the diameter-reduction start position of the gas jet port is.
  • a starting member is welded with dummy rods 2 at both ends of a core rod 1, and rotatably supported by a chuck mechanism 4 about an axis.
  • a burner 3 is configured to laterally move, and is disposed to face the starting member.
  • Optical fiber materials e.g. vapor of SiCI 4 or the like and combustion gas (hydrogen gas and oxygen gas) are sprayed with the burner 3 to the starting member to deposit on the starting member glass particulates (soot) generated by hydrolysis in an oxyhydrogen flame.
  • a deposition layer is formed by reciprocating the burner 3 in the longitudinal direction of the starting member with a burner guide mechanism (not shown), thereby providing a porous glass preform for optical fiber.
  • a mechanism may be employed in which the starting member is reciprocated in the longitudinal direction instead of the burner 3.
  • porous glass preform for optical fiber is dehydrated in a heating furnace, and then converted to a transparent glass to be a glass preform for optical fiber.
  • a burner 3 for producing a porous glass preform includes a first tube of a glass material gas jet port 6 in a center, a second tube of a seal gas jet port 7, a third tube of a combustible gas jet port 8 enclosing eight small-diameter combustion-supporting gas jet ports 11 having a focal length of 150 mm, a fourth tube of a seal gas jet port 9, and a fifth tube of a combustion-supporting gas jet port 10.
  • the tips of the third tube 8, the fourth tube 9, and the fifth tube 10 are reduced in diameter as shown in Fig. 3 .
  • the fourth tube 9 was axially shifted by 0.5 mm relative to the third tube 8
  • the fifth tube 10 was axially shifted by 0.5 mm relative to the fourth tube 9.
  • the fourth 9 and the fifth 10 tubes were axially shifted in such a direction that the clearances can be smaller on a side in which the gas inlet 12 tubes of the gas jet ports were disposed.
  • the burner 3 used in Examples 1 and 2, as shown in Fig. 3 , has a structure in which a tube arranged more outward from the small-diameter gas jet ports 11 has a diameter reduced at a position closer to the burner tip (L1>L2>L3).
  • the burner used in Comparative Examples 1 and 2, as shown in Fig. 5 has a structure in which a tube arranged more outward from the small-diameter gas jet ports 11 has a diameter reduced at a position more away from the burner tip (L1 ⁇ L2 ⁇ L3).
  • the fourth tube 9 was supplied with N 2 as a seal gas at 5 L/min, and the fifth tube 10 was supplied with O 2 as a combustion-supporting gas at 40 L/min.
  • Example 1 Example 2 Comparative Example 1 Comparative Example 2 mm mm mm mm Diameter-reduction position of third tube 8 L3 70 70 70 Diameter-reduction position of fourth tube 9 L4 60 65 75 80 diameter-reduction position of fifth tube 10 L5 50 60 80 90
  • the linear velocity distribution was measured at 90 degree intervals in four directions, i.e. zero o'clock, three o'clock, six o'clock, and nine o'clock directions.
  • the direction in which the gas inlet 12 tubes of the gas jet ports are disposed is defined as the zero o'clock direction.
  • the first tube 6 was supplied with SiCI 4 as a glass material gas at 10 L/min and with O 2 as a combustion-supporting gas at 20 L/min
  • the second tube 7 was supplied with N 2 as a seal gas at 4 L/min
  • the third tube 8 was supplied with H 2 as a combustible gas at 170 L/min
  • the fourth tube 9 was supplied with N 2 as a seal gas at 5 L/min
  • the fifth tube 10 was supplied with O 2 as a combustion-supporting at 40 L/min
  • the small-diameter gas jet ports 11 were supplied with O 2 as a combustion-supporting gas at 16 L/min.

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